Psychosocial (Drop D) · Slipknot

157 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 13 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 136 BPM
PSYCHOSOCIAL (DROP D) · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 37, 41, 69, 73, 76 and 11 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 76-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 16 sections: 119 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-36.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART T
PART W
PART Z
CHORUS 4
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesILWZT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Psychosocial (Drop D)?

136 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Psychosocial (Drop D) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Psychosocial (Drop D)?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 37, 41, 69, 73, 76 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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